The series of annual Asian Computing Science Conferences (ASIAN) was started
in 1995 to provide a forum for researchers in computer science from the
Asian region and to promote interaction with researchers from other regions.
The conference series was initiated by the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand,
in partnership with the INRIA, France, and the UNU/IIST, Macau. The first
three conferences were held, respectively, in Bangkok, Singapore, and Katmandu.
The proceedings were published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1023,
1179, and 1345 from Springer-Verlag.

Although the scope of the conferences was a broad coverage of Computer
Science, there was a focus on the more theoretical areas of algorithms,
programming, concurrency and parallelism, networking and security. The
1998 conference will continue to emphasize the conceptual areas of Computer
Science, though papers in all areas will be considered. The following themes
represent the areas of focus for this year:

Formal Reasoning and Verification

Programming Languages

Data and Knowledge Representation

Networking and Web Computing

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
LNCS series. We also plan to edit a special journal issue dedicated to
ASIAN'98 conference, expected to be published from International Journal
of Foundations of Computer Science.
hsiang@csie.ntu.edu.tw and ohori@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp